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Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Kesari is a Marathi newspaper that was founded on 4 January 1881 and Maratha newspaper in English (Weekly).

Syed Ahmed Khan was the founder of Aligarh Muslim University and a forward looking Islamist reformer. Mohammed Ali Jinnah - first governor-general (1947–48) of Pakistan.

Mamata Banerjee (Founder and first chairperson). Symbol of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) - Jora Ghas Phul. Slogan of TMC - Ma Mati Manush.

Mother Teresa (from Macedonia) - Nobel Peace Prize (1979), founded the Missionaries of Charity. Saint Bernadette - French saint whose visions led to the founding of the Marian shrine of Lourdes.

1859 (March). The Indigo Rebellion (Neel Bidroh) started in Bengal and was a revolt by the farmers against British planters who had forced them to grow indigo under terms that were greatly unfavorable to the farmers.

34. The first passenger train between Mumbai and Thane started on 16 April 1853. Three locomotives named Sultan, Sindh, and Sahib pulled the carriage train. Lord Dalhousie : Father of Indian Railways.

1905 at Paris under the patronage of Madam Bhikaji Cama, Munchershah Burjorji Godrej and S. R. Rana. It was a branch of the Indian Home Rule Society which was established in London in 1905. Bhikaji Cama's important publication is 'Vande Mataram' (1909).

Rabindranath Tagore in 1921. Until independence it was a college, got the status of Central University in 1951 by an act of the Parliament.

1905. Other revolutionaries: V.D. Savarkar, Bhikaji Cama, V.N. Chatterjee, Lala Har Dayal, V.V.S. Aiyar, M.P.T. Acharya, P.M. Bapat, etc. Shyamji Krishna Verma founded the Indian Home Rule Society and The Indian Sociologist (Journal) in London. He became the rst President of Bombay Arya Samaj.

Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore: Santiniketan (1901), Nobel Prize in Literature (1913, Gitanjali), composed Jana Gana Mana (India’s National Anthem) and Amar Shonar Bangla (Bangladesh’s National Anthem). Other Works: Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes].

Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951, the Bhoodan Movement (rst started in Andhra Pradesh) was initiated at Pochampally village (Telangana) . The Bhoodan movement attempted to persuade wealthy landowners to voluntarily give a percentage of their land to landless people.

Anand Math (1882). Vande Matram was rst sung by Rabindranath Tagore in the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress. Its rst two verses were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress. It was adopted as National song by the Constituent Assembly of India on 24 January 1950. It was composed originally in Sanskrit and Bengali. It was translated in prose by Shri Aurobindo in Karmayogin on 20 November 1909.

Lala Lajpat Rai. All India Trade Union Congress, AITUC (created on October 31, 1920 in Bombay) is the rst Central Trade Union of India and the second largest trade union federation in India after the Indian National Trade union Congress. In India, Trade Unions in India are registered under the Trade Union Act (1926). The founding leaders of AITUC were Bal Gangadhar Tilak, N.M.Joshi, B.P.Wadia, Diwan Chamanlall, Lala Lajpat Rai, and Joseph Baptista.

Rabindranath Tagore. Famous poems - ‘Gora’, ‘Gitanjali’, ‘Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo’, ‘Dui Bigha Jomi’, etc. Bhagat Singh- ‘Why I Am an Atheist’, ‘Jail Diary and Other Writings’, ‘The Jail Notebook and Other Writings’, ‘No Hanging’, ‘Please Shoot Us’, ‘Letter to my Father’, etc.

Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti is celebrated as 'Parakram Diwas' on 23rd January. He founded 'the Forward Bloc’ to consolidate the political left and major support base in his home state Bengal. He presided over two congress sessions First at Haripura in 1938 and next in Tripuri in 1939.

Dadabhai Naoroji. He was known as the Grand old man of India. He was known as India Gladstone. He was the founder of the East India Association in 1866. The rst attempt to calculate National Income of India was made by him. He was the rst Asian (Indian) member of British Parliament. He coined the name “Indian National Congress” (INC).

Rabindranath Tagore. Visvabharati university was founded by Rabindranath Tagore. Bangadarshan magazine was edited by Rabindranath Tagore.

Singapore. The All India Forward Bloc was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose. He founded the Azad Hind Government on 21st October 1943.

1920. Oudh Kisan Sabha (Oudh Farmers Association) was an association formed by Baba Ram Chandra. He was a trade unionist who organized the farmers of Oudh and led the rst protest against the landlords.

Shimla Pact was signed in 1972 by Zulqar Ali Bhutto, the President of Pakistan, and Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India.

Operation Polo - the code name of the Hyderabad "police action" in September 1948. It was a military operation in which the Indian Armed Forces invaded the Nizam-ruled princely state, annexing it into the Indian Union.

Peasants’ uprising. It was against the tax policies of the British in 1894. Patharughat is a place in Assam and is currently known as Patharighat.

Nyaya Yudh .He founded the Lok Dal party.

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. BJS was an Indian right-wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the political arm of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization.

Santhals (Tribal who inhabited the forest of Rajmahal hills). Damin-i-Koh - British promised non-interference in the land.

1948. After the State Reorganisation Act 1956 Hyderabad was merged with Andhra state and later renamed as Andhra Pradesh.

Jawaharlal Nehru. The aim of this committee was to make a plan which could balance private and public partnership and urban and rural economies.

Gwalior. The Samadhi of Rani Lakshmi Bai is situated at Phool Bagh. It is to commemorate the great warrior of Jhansi. Rani Lakshmi Bai, fought the battle against the British Raj during the Indian rebellion of 1857.

Rajagopalachari's formula (or C. R. formula or Rajaji formula) was a proposal formulated by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari to solve the political deadlock between the All India Muslim League and the Indian National Congress on the independence of British India.

Rabindranath Tagore became the rst non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for his literary work. He was awarded knighthood in 1915 by King George V.